Max Roser was born on 1983 and is an economist and philosopher who focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
17 Facts About Max Roser
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Max Roser is the founder and director of the research publication Our World in Data.
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Max Roser was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany, a village close to the border with France.
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Max Roser has two undergraduate degrees and two master's degrees.
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Max Roser completed his dissertation in 2011 at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
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In 2015 Max Roser said that there are three messages of his work: "The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better".
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Max Roser listed global poverty, inequality, existential risks, human rights abuse, and humanity's environmental impact among the world's most severe problems.
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Max Roser advocates looking at larger trends in poverty, education, health and violence since these are slowly, but persistently changing the world and are neglected in the reporting of today's mass media.
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Max Roser is known for his research how global living conditions are changing and his visualisations of these trends.
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Max Roser has shown that in many societies in the past a large share of children died.
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Max Roser has criticized the practice of focusing on the international poverty line alone.
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Max Roser proposes using several different poverty lines to understand what is happening to global poverty.
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Max Roser's most cited article, coauthored with Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, is concerned with global population growth.
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Max Roser has been part of the Statistical Advisory Panel of UNDP.
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Max Roser's research is cited in academic journals including Science, Nature, and The Lancet.
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Max Roser developed a global cartogram in which the area of each country represents the size of the country's population.
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Max Roser published it open access and it became widely used in the media.